Music Preferences and Personality (02-14-22)
Greenberg and colleagues probed links between personality and preferred music styles and it seems likely that their findings can be applied more generally.
Greenberg and colleagues probed links between personality and preferred music styles and it seems likely that their findings can be applied more generally.
McDonald, Bockler, and Kanske studied how hearing different sorts of music influences our thinking about other people.
Chang and Kim studied how different sorts of background music in movies influences the thoughts of audience members.
Soundscaping to boost income
De Fleurian and Pearce studied the implications of specific aspects of musical experiences and it seems likely that their findings can be extended to soundscaping generally.
Kiss and Linnell investigated how listening to the music that they prefer to hear as they work on a task that requires attention influences a person’s cognitive performance.
Yang and colleagues studied how the noises that people hear in highway tunnels influences their driving performance; their findings are likely relevant in other contexts.
Music, exercise, and thinking hard
Peck and teammates found that listening to music may not help people feel less stressed in the sorts of situations that are often encountered in daily life, for example, while at work.
Recently released research confirms which music tempos are relaxing.